...will not be down for breakfast (threads)

Main Streeter · Post by **Main Streeter** » Thu Dec 24, 2009 5:24 pm

darph nader wrote:If they do get the 'memorial' thread up and running I've got a few folks to add. Nobody you would know,but someone near and dear to my heart.

Our family has a Mass request for him this week. Not much, but we care darph.

darph nader · Post by **darph nader** » Thu Dec 24, 2009 7:20 pm

Main Streeter wrote:Our family has a Mass request for him this week. Not much, but we care darph.

Thanks MS. Monday is the funeral and Tuesday they bury his ashes. :(

BRWombat · Post by **BRWombat** » Thu Dec 24, 2009 8:33 pm

My own two cents, worth about that much: I can easily see how "won't be down for breakfast" could be offensive to someone close to the departed -- it is rather flippant and light in tone. And yes, for certain circumstances or for someone close it would be completely inappropriate.

That being said, humor in bleak circumstances is natural and necessary (though admittedly enjoyed more easily by some than others), and it's easier to be light-hearted about the loss of someone who isn't close. From what I've seen here, there is no intent to offend, and the people whose deaths are being announced in the "breakfast" way don't seem to be the ones most likely to have family and close friends show up here. (And when the losses to SGT regulars have happened, they are handled more seriously and appropriately.)

I'd hate to get so uptight about the potential to offend that we lose the ability to share a memory when a well-known person passes, with humor and without unnatural solemnity.

BTW, when I die, I've already told my family they can just wheel me down to the alley to be picked up by the trash truck. (They'll probably have to wait for the monthly "bulk pick-up" day, though.) So feel free to "breakfast" me all you want!

Zazu · Post by **Zazu** » Thu Dec 24, 2009 9:21 pm

TdcOgre wrote:I've always tried to follow: De mortuis nil nisi bonum dicendum est

Truus datum!

Honda Enoch · Post by **Honda Enoch** » Fri Dec 25, 2009 1:57 pm

BRWombat wrote:We could call it "The Breakfast Club."

I LIKE IT!!!! :D

kurtisnelson wrote:I vote these just go away.

No way!!!!

I use this board alone to keep up to date on deaths.

I don't think they are disrespectful at all. A lot better then saying "BOB DIED AT AGE 45"

darph nader · Post by **darph nader** » Fri Dec 25, 2009 2:42 pm

Zazu wrote:Truus datum!

HONEY,they're talking weird again. Bring a beer,please. (always say 'please'. beer delivered 'air-mail' hurts.)

kurtisnelson · Post by **kurtisnelson** » Fri Dec 25, 2009 9:04 pm

Honda Enoch wrote:I LIKE IT!!!! :D
No way!!!!
I use this board alone to keep up to date on deaths.
I don't think they are disrespectful at all. A lot better then saying "BOB DIED AT AGE 45"

I just don't care and get grumpy at things being in my new posts list.
I also want my forums in a newsgroup reader, but...

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